How the California Coastal Commission is hurting Californian home buyers and renters
January 12, 2021
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By
CAROL PARK
The private vs. public beach debate is often characterized as debate on social justice.
The logic is that blocked public beach access disproportionally hurts the poor who cannot afford to live in beachfront homes. In California, this is where the heroic California Coastal Commission enters: to protect the rights of such disadvantaged groups against the rich and evil coastal homeowners.
Except, multiple studies by academics have shown that the regulatory actions of the California Coastal Commission end up further alienating of the groups they intend to protect.